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«AY15
A local teenager is per-
•phtx,ed about -tate way -people
drive tumid •Seetbetb's pub-
!ire.helico!sandskycaps-centre .
Seaforth District • nigh
School student Kyle' Rea
observed 75 "traffic viola-
tions" between 3 and 4 p.m.
at -they corner of Market and
Sperling &reels. with failing
to signal topping the list at
24. Failing to stop.at a stop
sign was diencxt most preva-
lent bad habit at la. then not
wearing seat belts at nine.
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The iiuron Expositor is
"Por Sale" -. for the second
. time in six months'
The 136 -year-old weekly
newspaper and 10 sister pub-
:ications in the •Signal Star
• chain changed hands. in
December when sold by
Burgoyne Publishing and
bought by Bowes Publisher
Ltd. ot London
But Bowes in turn is owned
h� the Toronto Sun
Publishing 'Company. which •
• r n turn is controlled- by
Rogers Communications Inc.
Rogers announced it wanted
iu seal its 62,5 per cent share
in tai Sun suddenly last
lues ay. which mean,
Bowes tau is now on the
block and all Signal -Star
papers again. meaning The
Expositor
MAY 22
A Blyth man is dead as.the
result cit a two -vehicle acci-
dent which occurred on
Monday an- Winthrop.
A tractor trailer driven -h'
Mervyn Schneider, 57, 01
Brussels was westbound on
County Rd. 17 and failed to
• stun- torr a stop stgn-. The
transport truck crossed over
County. Rd. 12 into the path
fit the northbound pick-up
truck driven by 33 -year-old
Jaanc> Edward Hubbard -of
Blytl
Hubbard was pronounced
need at Seafonh ,Community
Hospital •
Steven Murray of-Godench.
turrerly ot St. Columban,
wit° • is lacing a second-
degree.inurder charge in
connection with the disap-
pearance
isap<p arance of his then 15-ytnft-
oki daughter. Mistie Murray.
was charged Friday with six
count. 01...breaking court
order. •
This was the second time
Murray has been charged
with breach of conditions.
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, Ir s a tough life and getting
rougher kir a rare type 01 tur-
tle that is tar more common
here in Huron County than
anywhiere:else in Canada.
The wood turtle is officially
• vutnerahic." as of last
muni lit, sti designated by' the
committee fit Scientific
experts and conservationists
-who meet every year- to
upgrade this nation's list of
extinct and endangered
specs":
MAY 29
t igurc skater Lloyd Eisler.
a
Seabird) native, •is entering
Cat -facia'. Sports Hall of
i' 4111C. Ile and pairs partner
Isabelle Brasseur, of Quebec,
were two and the half-dozen
1996 inductees announced
t•nday
• * •
Worker, at Seaforth
Creamery Ltd. on Main
Street elected to go union
Monday.
The employees of the long-
established Main Street com-
pany voted to join locals of
the United Food , and
Commercial Workers
international, with offices in
'!haunt°.
# • •
11 anyone happened to see
the Blue Jays baseball gain
on Saturday, they would have
recognized' .the . woman
singing the national anthem
as Walton's Margaret
Mcinroy. It was the
Federated Wumen'S Institute
of Ontario Day at the Deane.
***
The chtes in the Way, the
.province es its business
hashit:the agrimtllsure,sector
with the utbaick.of four full -
Lillie . jobs ;at the Ontario
(Ministry of AgricttiWtc.aad
!lural .6ffcirs ,office in
Clinton.
JUNE 5
"Is there a law tor Mr.
Murray and a law for every-
body. else''" asked Provincial
Court Judge Garry Hunter
Thursday, as he sentenced
former St. Cotumtwn maiden'
Stove Murray; 46. to five
months -in jail -after -Murray
pleaded guilty to five counts
of breach of bail conditions.
*•4
The grandson of a Seaforth
couple. 10 -year-old Adam
Bisback of Kanata, pitched
the first ball at the Skydomc
Saturday to start the big
league baseball game
between the Kansas City
Royals and the Toronto Blue
Jays.
He is the grandson of Ken
and Martoree Linglcbach of
Seaforth and' the son of Lon
and AI Bisbac1,.
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Prom Scotch Broth and
Iris!, 5trii.... Hibbert
Township's history hook is
now being hound at the print -
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The book'S official launch
is a week this Saturday. June
15. at the Dublin Community
Centre trorn noon till 4 p.m
where editor Dean Robinson
wilt be on hand to autograph
copes.
Jt 12
A 1:400 Ib. Limousin hull
escaped through a terve to
McKillop•ibwnahip and sent
a Walton man to hospital
• with a coracuasion and lacera-
tions to his head, while lead-
ing its owners and provincial
police on a lengthy and less -
than -merry chase, before
being shot and kilted by a
local hunter on the lawn of
Seaforth hospital early last
Tuesday evening.
•••
A Grey township woman
who still lives in the house
she was born in will turn' 1(x1
on June 16
A celebration will take
place for Jessie Engle on
Sunday. June 16 at St. John ,
Anglican Church in Brussels.
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Huron County residents can
take a tree one-hour tnp any-
where in the world.
The vehicle tor this no -cost
vacation is the Internet cour-
tesy of the Huron
Community Access Project.
Seatonh is one of 271 cam-
• •• •
inanities awarded a commu-
nity,aooess project by the fed-
eral government from more
than 750 applicants across
the country. said Huron -
Bruce MP Paul Stookk
JtIN819
Bell Canada has "absolute-
ly no plans" to modernize
Seatorth's telephone system,
so local people and business-
es that are bothered by this
had better not plead "too
busy" and leave their con-
cerns -on the back -burner.
Council is planning to for-
mally petition the utility to
upgrade Seatorth's telephone
switching system so local
users, who pay the same
rates, can receive the wmc
service 98.9 per cent of the
province now gets.
i i •
Drug use among teenagers
has been on the rise for the
past two years. reported
Meryl Thomas, program
director for the Huron
Addiction Assessment and
Referral Centre at a parent
information meeting last
week.
* • •
Seaforth Council passed
eight bylaws at last 7lreiday
night's iecond meetitlg in
June, among them a -bylaw
prohibiting parking on public
and private property with
ceetsertt.
* • •
About 450 welfare recipi-
ents in Huron County wilt be
working 17 hours per -week
tor their cheques starting this
fall.
JUNE 26
Seatornh's Boyd Devereaux
was selected sixth overall in
the first round of the annual
-National Hockey League
draft at the Kiel Centre in St
Louis Saturday. He was taken
by the Edmonton Oilers. and
of the many talented hockey
players over the years none
has ever been selecu.d higher:
•
.Carol -Ann McQuaid et
Seaforth won her second
straight Canadian Open Step -
Dancing Championship on
the weekend at Dundalk. The
musically talented 22 -year-
old has been step -dancing
since she was three years old
and earlier this month gradu-
ated from the University of
Toronto with a degree -in his-
tory and Rnglieh. She' also
graduated from music cones
es at the University ot
'We -stern • Ontario last
November.
i • •
A • team from Vincent's
Perm Equipment in Seaforth
won the •Rockton Combine
Cnmeh on Sunday. The event
- was pari rf kockton's annual-
Antiquc and Hobby show.
Not only was the Seaforth
entry the last standing 'or
moving comaane on the field
atter all the crunching but it
won "Best Looking" corn -
time as well.
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It was so .secret. they held it
for 50 years. But Prank Sills,
along with hundreds of other
Canadians who worked with
radar during the Second
World War. finally received a
Certificate ot Appreciation
tor helping Engttrtl1 in the air
defense of Great Britain The
certificates. from the British"
Air Ministry (dated t946)
were presented at the WWII
Radar Reunion in Calgary
which took place June 7-9.
1996.
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